They couldn’t have been farther apart—in socioeconomic status, and, quite likely, in point of view. And the divide was something that students and faculty members pointed out again and again when they addressed the University of California’s Board of Regents during a raucous meeting on Monday. The regents met at four system campuses, linked to each other by teleconference, and then heard public comment. “Honestly, I am not interested in a false dialogue with a body, the UC regents, that is not democratically accountable to the students or any members of the community,” said Robin Marie Averbeck, a graduate student at the University of California at Davis. Meetings like this, she said, were meant to “make us feel like we’re being heard, when the fact that we are here on teleconference shows how absurd it is.” The meeting ended early, as chanting protesters drowned out the regents’ meeting, following the public-comment session.

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by Scott Carlson and Collin Eaton, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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